Blow off steam: You too can make loud noises
Concierge.com
By Jason H. Harper
Deep breaths just aren’t working anymore. You’ve sworn off CNBC and your local paper is now history, but there’s no escaping the tsunami of bad economic news. A beach vacation would only give you more time to obsess over how much your 401(k) is losing with each oncoming wave. No, you can’t take this crisis lying down. It’s time to be proactive, to take up arms against a sea of trouble, to really and truly vent. Go ahead, break something, shoot something, blow something up! Hell, even set yourself on fire. We’ve assembled a list of the world’s most aggressive vacations, our picks for the best places to blow off some steam. Firing an AK-47 may not bring back your stock portfolio, but it’s way more fun than egging the houses of AIG execs. {Read the full story Concierge.com]
April 30 (Bloomberg) — Driving half blind, my helmet visor coated with greasy black water, I floor it to beat the racer inches to my right as we scream into a tight, narrow turn. One of us is going to eat it.
Unfortunately, it’s me. Tires kiss as we kamikaze into the bend — crack! My car thuds into the wall and then spins like a top on the wet track. Two other cars barrel around the corner just as I roll to a stop. I brace for the impact.
While head-on collisions are best avoided, the outcome is less than deadly. We’re on an indoor track, piloting 6.5- horsepower go-karts with a top speed of 40 miles per hour. The racing is real enough, the carnage is minimal. [To read on Bloomberg News, click here] (more…)
Grilled: Check out those teeth on the SL65 Black Series
May 26 (Bloomberg) — How does one describe the sensation of hurtling from a standstill to 60 miles per hour (97 kilometers per hour) in 3.8 seconds?
Snugged into a heavily bolstered seat in a $300,000 Mercedes-Benz SL65 AMG Black Series coupe, I’m about to get a real-world illustration. The 661 horsepower, twin-turbo, V-12 is strangely silent, a snake coiled in wait, until I stomp on its proverbial tail, going full on the gas. It strikes immediately. (more…)
